What Were Your Dumb Noobie Mistakes? - GoFuckYourself.com

kristin · 11-13-2003, 04:08 PM

When I first stated in the industry, I spent a day trying to change the words underneath my name on GFY. It really bothered me that "I was probably spamming."

TDF · 11-13-2003, 04:08 PM

too many to name...biggest one was thinking adult marketing was the same as mainstream marketing

hyper · 11-13-2003, 04:09 PM

my dumb noob mistake was busting my ass to make some cash
then when the cash started rolling in I slacked off big time

it was hell trying to catch up again

TheDoc · 11-13-2003, 04:12 PM

When I first started writing HTML I would forget to put border=0 on the img src. All my pictures would have a box around them, took me a bit to figure that one out.

The other was I would close my HTML tags by putting the / after the tag. FONT/ B/

The good fun days of not having a clue how the Internet worked

RAM · 11-13-2003, 04:12 PM

Man I use to type out everything....Yes then one day someone said Hold down Ctrl + C then Ctrl + V.....OMG I had like 2 more hours in my day.

kristin · 11-13-2003, 04:13 PM

For a long time I thought AdultLegal were lawyers for the adult industry...

Hooper · 11-13-2003, 04:13 PM

i got drunk and posted.

oh wait..

did you say newbie??? ;-)

kristin · 11-13-2003, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RAM
Man I use to type out everything....Yes then one day someone said Hold down Ctrl + C then Ctrl + V.....OMG I had like 2 more hours in my day.

That is a good one!

Mr Pheer · 11-13-2003, 04:13 PM

My first website had 250 free pictures then I got it listed on PersianKitty. I learned how expensive bandwidth was then.

Scott McD · 11-13-2003, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kristin
When I first stated in the industry, I spent a day trying to change the words underneath my name on GFY. It really bothered me that "I was probably spamming."

Hahahaha,
When ya gonna change your 'Ask me about negative cash flow' ??

kristin · 11-13-2003, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Scott McD

Hahahaha,
When ya gonna change your 'Ask me about negative cash flow' ??

When it becomes positive.

twistyneck · 11-13-2003, 04:15 PM

I used to build galleries and free sites. It was a complete waste of time.

radical · 11-13-2003, 04:15 PM

My dumb ass mistake was thinking the hun was a small website lol!!! boy o boy

budz · 11-13-2003, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hyper
my dumb noob mistake was busting my ass to make some cash
then when the cash started rolling in I slacked off big time

it was hell trying to catch up again

ditto

SubSonic · 11-13-2003, 04:16 PM

my biggest mistake was it, that i thought i can earn the big bucks right from the beginning. but i'd learned fast, that it is hard work to earn good cash.

Niki · 11-13-2003, 04:17 PM

that I've spend more than I've made ...

TheJimmy · 11-13-2003, 04:19 PM

I 'acquired' some html code I wanted to emulate a lil, and totally did not even know or think to mess with those things called meta tags & crap...turned out they had some of PK's terms in them, and she sent me a nice, to the point 'get bent I'm not listing you' email, of course I profusely apologized, removed the offending html on one of my gallery pages and never was that careless again...

this was, uhm, I wanna say around 98ish when I had my first site put up on sexysites.com freehosting....getting a link on PK and Boogie's Console Free zone used to make my day....hell still would!... I love da hits....

I think if I say Boogie one more time he might show up...

that's about it...oh another newbie mistake I made, was not whipping out paysites or a solid 'one site to be known for' type of thing way back...and sticking with it... biggggg mistake....

doober · 11-13-2003, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kristin
For a long time I thought AdultLegal were lawyers for the adult industry...

TheDoc · 11-13-2003, 04:20 PM

Uploading pictures in ASCII mode.

Making thumbnails to really be 80x80 rather than forcing 1000x1000 picture to 80x80.

Learning to organize my server so all my HTML and pictures are not in the same directory.

cezam · 11-13-2003, 04:20 PM

thinking starting a tgp is a good idea

RAM · 11-13-2003, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kristin

That is a good one!

Yes I AM

Peaches · 11-13-2003, 04:27 PM

Not buying one word domains back in 1996 and devoting most of my time and energy to DMOZ listings 2-3 years ago.

Dwreck · 11-13-2003, 04:29 PM

I was to scared to talk to anyon at my first trade show.

partytime · 11-13-2003, 04:29 PM

It took me a few dadys to figure out how to login to GFY. What instructions? :-)

hyatla · 11-13-2003, 04:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kristin
When I first stated in the industry, I spent a day trying to change the words underneath my name on GFY. It really bothered me that "I was probably spamming."

Similar here. I saw somebody has "woman in a man's body" and thought it was way cooler than mine being "am i allowed to speak", and did ask them how to change to theirs.

phogirl69 · 11-13-2003, 04:31 PM

I didn't know how to use Explorer, when I bought my pc it has aol pre-installed and came with a free yr of AOL, so I thought AOL was the only way to get on-line

Also took a long time for me to figure out how to copy and paste...

Umm... didn't know to save html files as .html I was saving them as .txt so I would have a page with html gibberish.

Umm... thought ftp was too complicated to learn, preferred using a "file manager" from freehosts

Was VERY PC illiterate, didn't know how to copy images from one folder to another, so I was using Thumbnailer to move images from one folder to another .

Also there wasa time when I didnt know how to make thumbs, my thumgs were the bigger pic loaded at a smaller dimensions. And I was making each thumb this way manually in Netscape Composer one by one.

It was pretty bad at first

Paul · 11-13-2003, 04:34 PM

Probably deciding to upload a new index page to one of my websites while drunk. It was 12 hours later until I realized that I had uploaded the wrong fucking page !! I lost a lot of traffic that day

Dawgy · 11-13-2003, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by twistyneck
I used to build galleries and free sites. It was a complete waste of time.

lol ok??

mine was making quick $ then slacking off.
its a bitch to start over.

SENSEX · 11-13-2003, 04:46 PM

-Buying domain names for $70.00 from Network Solutions.
-Not keeping a backup on my system.
-Spending hours trying to figure out why my html was not showing up, when I forgot to close the title tag!
-ordering a dedicated server for 700$ a month, and thinking I could learn how to run it if I bought "Linux for dummies"
-Thinking Corel Draw was the future of web graphics, and ignoring Photoshop

TheSenator · 11-13-2003, 04:50 PM

Not hosting on a Linux based machine.

Loryn · 11-13-2003, 04:52 PM

I thought html stood for Hotmail.

SubSonic · 11-13-2003, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SENSEX
ordering a dedicated server for 700$ a month, and thinking I could learn how to run it if I bought "Linux for dummies"

TheDoc · 11-13-2003, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mystery Man

haha dont forget linking pictures locally

lol

Oh ya, my fav of them all.. The picture works for me but not for the rest of the world..

Ahh, what hell that was

nofx · 11-13-2003, 04:52 PM

learning how fast BW can be burned up

nofx · 11-13-2003, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Loryn-Adult.com
I thought html stood for Hotmail.

nice

Roald · 11-13-2003, 04:54 PM

When I first came to GFY I thought that the Boneprone family was something big, later I found out they are just a bunch of attention whores

basschick · 11-13-2003, 04:54 PM

when we made our first entire free site in 1996, we not only gave away too much content, but our site was ENORMOUS and almost impossible to navigate

Worldnet · 11-13-2003, 04:55 PM

Hanging out on chat boards. Very unproductive.

sherie · 11-13-2003, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RAM
Man I use to type out everything....Yes then one day someone said Hold down Ctrl + C then Ctrl + V.....OMG I had like 2 more hours in my day.

LOL copy and paste issues....I hear ya!!

Kimmykim · 11-13-2003, 05:05 PM

I'm still making mistakes, what are you talking about ;)

Eric · 11-13-2003, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim
I'm still making mistakes, what are you talking about ;)

That is cause you are still a n00b!

Kimmykim · 11-13-2003, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eric_aka_RedEyes

That is cause you are still a n00b!

Hahaha, I never said any different did I ;)

Paul · 11-13-2003, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Hanging out on chat boards. Very unproductive

Very True !!

Eric · 11-13-2003, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Loryn-Adult.com
I thought html stood for Hotmail.

Don't you still think that? n00b!

Eric · 11-13-2003, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim

Hahaha, I never said any different did I ;)

Takes one to know one

Phoenix · 11-13-2003, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kimmykim
I'm still making mistakes, what are you talking about ;)

ill go with that one as well

Kimmykim · 11-13-2003, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Eric_aka_RedEyes

Takes one to know one

Yep it does.

11-13-2003, 04:08 PM	#1
kristin GOO! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Back Home : ) Posts: 9,768	What Were Your Dumb Noobie Mistakes? When I first stated in the industry, I spent a day trying to change the words underneath my name on GFY. It really bothered me that "I was probably spamming." __________________ Vacares rules. "Usually only fat guys have the kind of knowledge and ability that Kristin has."

11-13-2003, 04:08 PM	#2
TDF Triple OG nigga on GFY Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in the BP4L family compound Posts: 27,296	too many to name...biggest one was thinking adult marketing was the same as mainstream marketing __________________ Sig heil

11-13-2003, 04:09 PM	#3
hyper Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mass Ass Posts: 5,294	my dumb noob mistake was busting my ass to make some cash then when the cash started rolling in I slacked off big time it was hell trying to catch up again __________________

11-13-2003, 04:12 PM	#5
RAM They're all hookers, but mom! Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Right now Shelby Twp MI Posts: 7,047	Man I use to type out everything....Yes then one day someone said Hold down Ctrl + C then Ctrl + V.....OMG I had like 2 more hours in my day. __________________ RAM Fucking Machines are like CASH MACHINES See RAM on these quality sites!! Rightofftheboat.com EuroBrideTryouts.com

11-13-2003, 04:13 PM	#6
kristin GOO! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Back Home : ) Posts: 9,768	For a long time I thought AdultLegal were lawyers for the adult industry... __________________ Vacares rules. "Usually only fat guys have the kind of knowledge and ability that Kristin has."

11-13-2003, 04:12 PM	#4
TheDoc Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Currently Incognito Posts: 13,827	When I first started writing HTML I would forget to put border=0 on the img src. All my pictures would have a box around them, took me a bit to figure that one out. The other was I would close my HTML tags by putting the / after the tag. FONT/ B/ The good fun days of not having a clue how the Internet worked

11-13-2003, 04:13 PM	#7
Hooper Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: A Free America Posts: 2,210	i got drunk and posted. oh wait.. did you say newbie??? ;-) __________________ <a href="http://www.adultplatinum.com/"><img src="http://www.adult.com/wmbanners/10dcash-468x60.gif"></a>

11-13-2003, 04:13 PM	#9
Mr Pheer So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 21,582	My first website had 250 free pictures then I got it listed on PersianKitty. I learned how expensive bandwidth was then.

11-13-2003, 04:15 PM	#12
twistyneck So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hanging by the neck until dead. Posts: 4,660	I used to build galleries and free sites. It was a complete waste of time.

11-13-2003, 04:15 PM	#13
radical Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Bonnie Scotland Posts: 2,876	My dumb ass mistake was thinking the hun was a small website lol!!! boy o boy __________________ ICQ: 166108967

11-13-2003, 04:16 PM	#15
SubSonic Confirmed User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Spain / ICQ: 474-520-926 Posts: 1,383	my biggest mistake was it, that i thought i can earn the big bucks right from the beginning. but i'd learned fast, that it is hard work to earn good cash.

11-13-2003, 04:17 PM	#16
Niki Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,476	that I've spend more than I've made ...

11-13-2003, 04:19 PM	#17
TheJimmy ICQ- five seven 0 2 5 5 0 Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 10,747	I 'acquired' some html code I wanted to emulate a lil, and totally did not even know or think to mess with those things called meta tags & crap...turned out they had some of PK's terms in them, and she sent me a nice, to the point 'get bent I'm not listing you' email, of course I profusely apologized, removed the offending html on one of my gallery pages and never was that careless again... this was, uhm, I wanna say around 98ish when I had my first site put up on sexysites.com freehosting....getting a link on PK and Boogie's Console Free zone used to make my day....hell still would!... I love da hits.... I think if I say Boogie one more time he might show up... that's about it...oh another newbie mistake I made, was not whipping out paysites or a solid 'one site to be known for' type of thing way back...and sticking with it... biggggg mistake.... __________________ Investor with 5m - 15m USD to invest. Do you have a site or network of sites earning 50k - 200k a month income? Email your contact and preliminary data to: domain.cashventures (at) gmail.com....Please...no tire kickers...serious offers and inquiries only.

11-13-2003, 04:20 PM	#19
TheDoc Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Currently Incognito Posts: 13,827	Uploading pictures in ASCII mode. Making thumbnails to really be 80x80 rather than forcing 1000x1000 picture to 80x80. Learning to organize my server so all my HTML and pictures are not in the same directory.

11-13-2003, 04:20 PM	#20
cezam Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: CZ, EU Posts: 1,363	thinking starting a tgp is a good idea __________________

11-13-2003, 04:27 PM	#22
Peaches Old broad Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Away Posts: 13,933	Not buying one word domains back in 1996 and devoting most of my time and energy to DMOZ listings 2-3 years ago.

11-13-2003, 04:29 PM	#23
Dwreck Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 7,362	I was to scared to talk to anyon at my first trade show. __________________ Derek Dwreck Smout Program Manager Icq 165976549 Skype derekthomassmout

11-13-2003, 04:29 PM	#24
partytime Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 258	It took me a few dadys to figure out how to login to GFY. What instructions? :-)

11-13-2003, 04:31 PM	#26
phogirl69 Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,330	I didn't know how to use Explorer, when I bought my pc it has aol pre-installed and came with a free yr of AOL, so I thought AOL was the only way to get on-line Also took a long time for me to figure out how to copy and paste... Umm... didn't know to save html files as .html I was saving them as .txt so I would have a page with html gibberish. Umm... thought ftp was too complicated to learn, preferred using a "file manager" from freehosts Was VERY PC illiterate, didn't know how to copy images from one folder to another, so I was using Thumbnailer to move images from one folder to another . Also there wasa time when I didnt know how to make thumbs, my thumgs were the bigger pic loaded at a smaller dimensions. And I was making each thumb this way manually in Netscape Composer one by one. It was pretty bad at first Last edited by phogirl69; 11-13-2003 at 04:34 PM..

11-13-2003, 04:34 PM	#27
Paul Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,637	Probably deciding to upload a new index page to one of my websites while drunk. It was 12 hours later until I realized that I had uploaded the wrong fucking page !! I lost a lot of traffic that day

11-13-2003, 04:46 PM	#29
SENSEX Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Someplace Special Posts: 1,159	-Buying domain names for $70.00 from Network Solutions. -Not keeping a backup on my system. -Spending hours trying to figure out why my html was not showing up, when I forgot to close the title tag! -ordering a dedicated server for 700$ a month, and thinking I could learn how to run it if I bought "Linux for dummies" -Thinking Corel Draw was the future of web graphics, and ignoring Photoshop

11-13-2003, 04:50 PM	#30
TheSenator Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 13,340	Not hosting on a Linux based machine.

11-13-2003, 04:52 PM	#31
Loryn Super Connector Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 12,853	I thought html stood for Hotmail. __________________ ~ loryn@loryntaylor . com ~ RIP TD

11-13-2003, 04:52 PM	#34
nofx Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Virgin Mary's womb Posts: 16,826	learning how fast BW can be burned up __________________ Often times I wonder why There's love and hate, theres live or die. When sickness comes I must decide: When feelings go, theres suicide.

11-13-2003, 04:54 PM	#36
Roald SecretFriends.com Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Location: IMC Headquarters Posts: 27,896	When I first came to GFY I thought that the Boneprone family was something big, later I found out they are just a bunch of attention whores __________________ WE ARE BUYING PAY SITES! CONTACT ME ClubSweethearts \| ManUpFilms \| SinfulXXX \| HOT * AdultPrime * HOT Paying webmasters since 1996! Contact: r.riepen @ sansylgroup.com \| telegram: roaldr

11-13-2003, 04:54 PM	#37
basschick Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: el lay, ca usa Posts: 2,540	when we made our first entire free site in 1996, we not only gave away too much content, but our site was ENORMOUS and almost impossible to navigate __________________ Got Gay and For Women Traffic?

11-13-2003, 04:55 PM	#38
Worldnet Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Atlanta Posts: 996	Hanging out on chat boards. Very unproductive.

11-13-2003, 05:05 PM	#40
Kimmykim bitchslapping zebras!!!!! Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: In a shack by the beach Posts: 16,015	I'm still making mistakes, what are you talking about ;)